84However, as the Commission has correctly noted, such a restriction corresponds, as follows from recital 7 in Regulation No 896/2001, to an objective of general interest, which is to combat speculative or artificial practices in relation to the issue of import licences, thereby precluding the possibility of a traditional operator who already has a tariff quota from being included in that same quota again as a nontraditional operator through the intermediary of another operator to which it is related. Achievement of that objective itself contributes to steady supply to the Community market which the Community rules are designed to ensure.
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